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MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND
VOL 4. NO. 1
TWIRP WEEK APPROACHES
On many social occasions during the year, although the majority
of students have fun, we know
there are many young ladies who
are left playing solitaire all night.
Twirp Week is especially designed
and organized to remedy such situations.
The Mu Gamma Society, high
standing ladies' organization of
Memorial, has now put all other
matters aside and the members are
busying themselves with the main
question. The Muse has been informed that no plans have been
finalized for Twirp Week but we
have heard indirectly that this year
the ladies are adding fresh ideas,
and are really plotting the men's
downfall!
Twirp Week will probably commence within 4 or 5 weeks—the
Mu Gamma will announce the
exact date in *he very near future.
For general information, and
warning to all males and naive
freshmen, we reprint the usual
Twirp Week rules.
Above all—The woman is requested to pay.
Continuing:
(a) Ladies must pay all expenses for
thf week set by the Mu-Gamma
Society and of course provide lashings of food and entertainment for
her swain.
(b) The lady must carry all books,
laundry and extra clothing.
(c) The ladies must open doors for
the gentlemen and permit them
to leave all classrooms and places
of assembly first.
ON MUSIC
APPRECIATION
The Music Appreciation Club,
revived last year, and lived a somewhat uproarious existence until the
close of college, is on the upgrade
again. We have been told by some
people very interested in its survival, that this year it is expected
to revert to the condition to which
it was originally intended . . .
that of the appreciation of good
music, interspersed with visits from
local and occasionally lectures by
some eminent people on the interpretation and appreciation of music.
A meeting is expected to be
called in a couple of weeks and
officers and convenors either appointed or elected. The exact date
of the meeting is not as yet decided
upon.
The Music Appreciation Society,
as indeed all the societies of the
University, are very anxious to include freshmen into their ranks, for
in Freshmen is the means of continuing from year to year without
having to form the club again every
year. Those who like music would
be well advised to inquire into the
possibilities of this organization.
Miss "Jackie" Martin, last year's
president, will be glad to give any
information desired, on this subject.
(d) The lady must walk on the outside of the sidewalks.
(e) No male is permitted any social
initiative whatsoever, repetition—
WHATSOEVER.
(f) The lady has the privilege of being escorted home but this is only
a privilege and may not be abused
to any extent.
(g) Any man caught evading any invitation will be sorry he ever did!
He will be brought to trial before
assembled students at some social
(we hear it's really going to be
strict this year, so watch out all
you male students!) and other dire
punishments will be heaped upon
him. Also he will be reported to
the Mu-Gamma who guards the
social register of Memorial. Never
again will his presence within
these hallowed walls be enlightened by any sign of brightness in
a female eye—what drastic punishment !!
These are age-old rules handed
down from ancient Egypt and discovered, as you know, on the end
of the Rosetta stone. Be warned
in time and ladies here is your
chance. It may be the chance of a
lifetime (?).
Watch the notice board and
future issues of the Muse for further information on this week of
weeks—Twirp Week.
CHEERS, CHEERS
As none of last year's cheer leaders were back this year it looked as
if we were going to have to start
from scratch or go without cheer
leaders this year. Then Sonia Dawe,
one of last year's cheer leaders, consented to train the girls. Before
long notices were posted in the
Girls' Common Room, and the
girls were "signing up."
Girls trying out for this noble
task are (in order of years at Memorial) Syl. Carew, Jackie Martin,
Dallas Courage, Ruth Horwood,
Hope Starks, Ann Bonfield, Marina
Power, Celine Power, Dorothy
Nash, Gerry Pleasance, Jan Ewing,
Ruth Lawrence, and Ethel
Grouchy.
Practices are held daily, and the
girls are making excellent progress.
The picking of the best girls will
be held soon. It is hoped to have
at least ten girls, so that the same
girls will not have to cheer at every
game, especially when there is a
girls' basketball' game and an ice
hockey match on the same night.
This year it is hoped to change
the uniforms from the red corduroy
peddle-pushers of last year, to short
red skirts lined with white, and
the usual white sweater with the
cheerleader's crest.
MEETTHE \ JVa One Gets
C. U. P.
The C.U.P. came into being on
New Year's Day, 1938, when the
editors of twelve Canadian college
papers met at Winnipeg to discuss
ambitions which had interested
them for some time—the possibility of a nation-wide news service
which would have the effect of
consolidating student opinion and
abolishing sectionalism.
The organization grew rapidly
and interest in it was very high.
However there was one important
difficulty which the C.U.P. had
to surmount. Hundreds and often
thousands of miles separated its
members and there was scant and
infrequent opportunity for them to
collaborate with one another verbally. Thus the institution of a
wire service came early and press
rates and filing arrangements were
concluded with the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Company.
Since then the C.U.P. members
have the benefits of exchanging "on
the spot news" and feature material by means of telegraph and mail
services.
The Muse also has this privilege
now and we hope everyone will be
looking forward to reading news
aom ether universities in rV very
near future.
Initiation At M. U. N. ?
When I mentioned the word "initiation" in the presence of certain
students not too long ago, I was
met with the strangest response!
The majority of those students
present just heaped words of abuse
on the whole idea of initiation,
whilst two or three said they didn't
care whether it was started now or
not, for they had passed their first
year.
This seems to be the way everyone looks at it, I soon discovered:
if they have passed their first year,
where any form of initiation would
not endanger their dignities, initiation is fine, they think, but those
beginning their first year, and those
who have undergone initiation in
some other colleges see in it a form
of. pure torture, to be avoided if at
all possible.
Why do people look upon initiation as such an evil? Through
talking with several students, I
soon discovered why: initiation in
most colleges has ceased to be what
is given in dictionaries as its true
meaning, (namely, "the act of introducing to or instructing in the
rudiments, principles, rules or ceremonies of an office or association"), and has reverted to what
certain primitive tribes take it to
mean,—a period of time during
which certain members of the tribe
must undergo every possible humiliation and, often, physical torture,
before being accepted as equals of
the elders of the tribe. Thus Freshmen are forced to undergo rigorous
initiation periods, humiliating as
they often are, in order to be regarded as a student in the eyes of
the more learned (?) students.
Whereas in the beginning initiation forms were regarded as a game,
more or less, and something to be
enjoyed by all, irt too many places
today it is looked upon with distaste by students. And, who could
blame students, when they have had
to suffer through long periods of
humiliation to satisfy the ego of
some supercilious Sophomore. I
say Sophomore, for it seems, in
most universities it is the Sophomore who delights most in "wielding the whip" over those they term
"green" Freshmen. We weren't
aware you were so much wiser after
one year at a University, were you?
From what we have seen, even in
their fourth year, few students have
lost all their "greenness,' if that's
what you choose to call it.
But, even if they were so much
wiser, enough is enough! Modified
forms of initiation, with the Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors helping, "instructing," an imposing
milder penalties for non-attention
to rules accepted by the University
would be a pleasant form of social
entertainment, as long as students
realized that the purpose of initiation was to introduce new students
to university life and help them to
get to know one another in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere,
and that it is something put into
university life for the benefit of
higher students, so that they may
tyrannize Freshmen and make them
cower beneath their might.
Did you know that they had to
ban initiation at Dalhousie this
year? It seems one young woman
was treated so badly, Faculty had
(Continued on page 4)
Acquainted
The lounge was crowded. Students were playing cards, drinking
pop and producing a good imitation of a smoke-screen. Through
the hub-bub of voices the strains
of a half-familiar melody was
heard. By the size of the crowd
in the lounge, one expected to find
an equally large number of students out on the dance floor. Hah!
There were about a dozen couples.
The occasion was the S.R.C.
Get-Acquainted party. Such a
party is put off every year. For
good reasons of course—primarily,
it gives the Freshmen a chance to
get acquainted with the other students. One event, used in past
years, which proved successful in
getting the party off to a good
start, was the Treasure hunt. Each
group in the Treasure hunt consisted of six students, three Freshmen and three other students. By
the time each party returned, the
Freshman knew girls with whom
he could dance when the dancing
began. This event was not held
this year.
At this party, the Freshmen
turned up (all stag) at the party,
but there was no way provided for
him to get an introduction to the
few members of the fairer (?) sex
who did turn up.
The first party this year was
not the (complete) success hoped
for, but at least some of the men
students caught upon their card
playing!
BEHIND THE WAISTLINE
by ONE WHO KNOWS
WE HAVE TERRIFIC NEWS THIS WEEK since it has been
stored up for some time. I have just gotten back from a Sewage expedition in Rumblechellypore. Believe me it was fun. As one who knows
I can tell you that I would much rather be back in Newfoundland than
up in Rumblechellypore, at least the Sewage here is under Government
control.
THERE'S A NEW INDUSTRY UNDER WAY and the
construction has begun already at Heart's Disease. This new industry is to be a cat farm. We certainly see a great future for Cats
in Newfoundland. . . . The government plans to import forty
five thousand CATS and put them on a farm. The fur will be
used to make coats, etc. Very near Heart's Disease a MOUSE farm
will be constructed, the government having imported eighty-five
thousand rats: as if they needed to import any ... ha heh, (I
bet I'm killing you with my wit). Anyway the RATS will feed
the Cats, for the last Commission of millionaires from New York
established the fact that the average CAT can subsist on THREE
RATS a day. Thus the CATS will eat the RATS, and the entrails of the CATS will be fed to the RATS, so there will be absolutely no expense. As one who knows, I think it is a very, very
, shaky scheme as far as economics are concerned, but we might as
well give it a try.
WE NOTICE THAT THE POLICE have raided another home
in St. John's, this time people were caught reading Mickey Spillane! This
is a foul and bawdy pastime, and it must stop, what will our youth
come to? It is disgraceful how people can sit and read these foul books
as long as they have something like their own TUESDAY TRUMPET
to please'the highest literary taste.
WE FOUND THAT THE PUBLIC LIKES the new program on
station PUTU every hour Monday through Friday. LIFE CAN BE
HORRIBLE is only on radio station PUTU of course. It is a real life
drama, with lifelike performances, and will put some life in your lifeless
afternoons. On PUTU of course. Well, I have been my usual well-
informed and unbiased self for another while.
$a>ce*%tt!?*8@ THAT'S 3 FOR THIS WEEK: (I can't count
up to thirty) !

The M
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND
VOL 4. NO. 1
TWIRP WEEK APPROACHES
On many social occasions during the year, although the majority
of students have fun, we know
there are many young ladies who
are left playing solitaire all night.
Twirp Week is especially designed
and organized to remedy such situations.
The Mu Gamma Society, high
standing ladies' organization of
Memorial, has now put all other
matters aside and the members are
busying themselves with the main
question. The Muse has been informed that no plans have been
finalized for Twirp Week but we
have heard indirectly that this year
the ladies are adding fresh ideas,
and are really plotting the men's
downfall!
Twirp Week will probably commence within 4 or 5 weeks—the
Mu Gamma will announce the
exact date in *he very near future.
For general information, and
warning to all males and naive
freshmen, we reprint the usual
Twirp Week rules.
Above all—The woman is requested to pay.
Continuing:
(a) Ladies must pay all expenses for
thf week set by the Mu-Gamma
Society and of course provide lashings of food and entertainment for
her swain.
(b) The lady must carry all books,
laundry and extra clothing.
(c) The ladies must open doors for
the gentlemen and permit them
to leave all classrooms and places
of assembly first.
ON MUSIC
APPRECIATION
The Music Appreciation Club,
revived last year, and lived a somewhat uproarious existence until the
close of college, is on the upgrade
again. We have been told by some
people very interested in its survival, that this year it is expected
to revert to the condition to which
it was originally intended . . .
that of the appreciation of good
music, interspersed with visits from
local and occasionally lectures by
some eminent people on the interpretation and appreciation of music.
A meeting is expected to be
called in a couple of weeks and
officers and convenors either appointed or elected. The exact date
of the meeting is not as yet decided
upon.
The Music Appreciation Society,
as indeed all the societies of the
University, are very anxious to include freshmen into their ranks, for
in Freshmen is the means of continuing from year to year without
having to form the club again every
year. Those who like music would
be well advised to inquire into the
possibilities of this organization.
Miss "Jackie" Martin, last year's
president, will be glad to give any
information desired, on this subject.
(d) The lady must walk on the outside of the sidewalks.
(e) No male is permitted any social
initiative whatsoever, repetition—
WHATSOEVER.
(f) The lady has the privilege of being escorted home but this is only
a privilege and may not be abused
to any extent.
(g) Any man caught evading any invitation will be sorry he ever did!
He will be brought to trial before
assembled students at some social
(we hear it's really going to be
strict this year, so watch out all
you male students!) and other dire
punishments will be heaped upon
him. Also he will be reported to
the Mu-Gamma who guards the
social register of Memorial. Never
again will his presence within
these hallowed walls be enlightened by any sign of brightness in
a female eye—what drastic punishment !!
These are age-old rules handed
down from ancient Egypt and discovered, as you know, on the end
of the Rosetta stone. Be warned
in time and ladies here is your
chance. It may be the chance of a
lifetime (?).
Watch the notice board and
future issues of the Muse for further information on this week of
weeks—Twirp Week.
CHEERS, CHEERS
As none of last year's cheer leaders were back this year it looked as
if we were going to have to start
from scratch or go without cheer
leaders this year. Then Sonia Dawe,
one of last year's cheer leaders, consented to train the girls. Before
long notices were posted in the
Girls' Common Room, and the
girls were "signing up."
Girls trying out for this noble
task are (in order of years at Memorial) Syl. Carew, Jackie Martin,
Dallas Courage, Ruth Horwood,
Hope Starks, Ann Bonfield, Marina
Power, Celine Power, Dorothy
Nash, Gerry Pleasance, Jan Ewing,
Ruth Lawrence, and Ethel
Grouchy.
Practices are held daily, and the
girls are making excellent progress.
The picking of the best girls will
be held soon. It is hoped to have
at least ten girls, so that the same
girls will not have to cheer at every
game, especially when there is a
girls' basketball' game and an ice
hockey match on the same night.
This year it is hoped to change
the uniforms from the red corduroy
peddle-pushers of last year, to short
red skirts lined with white, and
the usual white sweater with the
cheerleader's crest.
MEETTHE \ JVa One Gets
C. U. P.
The C.U.P. came into being on
New Year's Day, 1938, when the
editors of twelve Canadian college
papers met at Winnipeg to discuss
ambitions which had interested
them for some time—the possibility of a nation-wide news service
which would have the effect of
consolidating student opinion and
abolishing sectionalism.
The organization grew rapidly
and interest in it was very high.
However there was one important
difficulty which the C.U.P. had
to surmount. Hundreds and often
thousands of miles separated its
members and there was scant and
infrequent opportunity for them to
collaborate with one another verbally. Thus the institution of a
wire service came early and press
rates and filing arrangements were
concluded with the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Company.
Since then the C.U.P. members
have the benefits of exchanging "on
the spot news" and feature material by means of telegraph and mail
services.
The Muse also has this privilege
now and we hope everyone will be
looking forward to reading news
aom ether universities in rV very
near future.
Initiation At M. U. N. ?
When I mentioned the word "initiation" in the presence of certain
students not too long ago, I was
met with the strangest response!
The majority of those students
present just heaped words of abuse
on the whole idea of initiation,
whilst two or three said they didn't
care whether it was started now or
not, for they had passed their first
year.
This seems to be the way everyone looks at it, I soon discovered:
if they have passed their first year,
where any form of initiation would
not endanger their dignities, initiation is fine, they think, but those
beginning their first year, and those
who have undergone initiation in
some other colleges see in it a form
of. pure torture, to be avoided if at
all possible.
Why do people look upon initiation as such an evil? Through
talking with several students, I
soon discovered why: initiation in
most colleges has ceased to be what
is given in dictionaries as its true
meaning, (namely, "the act of introducing to or instructing in the
rudiments, principles, rules or ceremonies of an office or association"), and has reverted to what
certain primitive tribes take it to
mean,—a period of time during
which certain members of the tribe
must undergo every possible humiliation and, often, physical torture,
before being accepted as equals of
the elders of the tribe. Thus Freshmen are forced to undergo rigorous
initiation periods, humiliating as
they often are, in order to be regarded as a student in the eyes of
the more learned (?) students.
Whereas in the beginning initiation forms were regarded as a game,
more or less, and something to be
enjoyed by all, irt too many places
today it is looked upon with distaste by students. And, who could
blame students, when they have had
to suffer through long periods of
humiliation to satisfy the ego of
some supercilious Sophomore. I
say Sophomore, for it seems, in
most universities it is the Sophomore who delights most in "wielding the whip" over those they term
"green" Freshmen. We weren't
aware you were so much wiser after
one year at a University, were you?
From what we have seen, even in
their fourth year, few students have
lost all their "greenness,' if that's
what you choose to call it.
But, even if they were so much
wiser, enough is enough! Modified
forms of initiation, with the Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors helping, "instructing," an imposing
milder penalties for non-attention
to rules accepted by the University
would be a pleasant form of social
entertainment, as long as students
realized that the purpose of initiation was to introduce new students
to university life and help them to
get to know one another in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere,
and that it is something put into
university life for the benefit of
higher students, so that they may
tyrannize Freshmen and make them
cower beneath their might.
Did you know that they had to
ban initiation at Dalhousie this
year? It seems one young woman
was treated so badly, Faculty had
(Continued on page 4)
Acquainted
The lounge was crowded. Students were playing cards, drinking
pop and producing a good imitation of a smoke-screen. Through
the hub-bub of voices the strains
of a half-familiar melody was
heard. By the size of the crowd
in the lounge, one expected to find
an equally large number of students out on the dance floor. Hah!
There were about a dozen couples.
The occasion was the S.R.C.
Get-Acquainted party. Such a
party is put off every year. For
good reasons of course—primarily,
it gives the Freshmen a chance to
get acquainted with the other students. One event, used in past
years, which proved successful in
getting the party off to a good
start, was the Treasure hunt. Each
group in the Treasure hunt consisted of six students, three Freshmen and three other students. By
the time each party returned, the
Freshman knew girls with whom
he could dance when the dancing
began. This event was not held
this year.
At this party, the Freshmen
turned up (all stag) at the party,
but there was no way provided for
him to get an introduction to the
few members of the fairer (?) sex
who did turn up.
The first party this year was
not the (complete) success hoped
for, but at least some of the men
students caught upon their card
playing!
BEHIND THE WAISTLINE
by ONE WHO KNOWS
WE HAVE TERRIFIC NEWS THIS WEEK since it has been
stored up for some time. I have just gotten back from a Sewage expedition in Rumblechellypore. Believe me it was fun. As one who knows
I can tell you that I would much rather be back in Newfoundland than
up in Rumblechellypore, at least the Sewage here is under Government
control.
THERE'S A NEW INDUSTRY UNDER WAY and the
construction has begun already at Heart's Disease. This new industry is to be a cat farm. We certainly see a great future for Cats
in Newfoundland. . . . The government plans to import forty
five thousand CATS and put them on a farm. The fur will be
used to make coats, etc. Very near Heart's Disease a MOUSE farm
will be constructed, the government having imported eighty-five
thousand rats: as if they needed to import any ... ha heh, (I
bet I'm killing you with my wit). Anyway the RATS will feed
the Cats, for the last Commission of millionaires from New York
established the fact that the average CAT can subsist on THREE
RATS a day. Thus the CATS will eat the RATS, and the entrails of the CATS will be fed to the RATS, so there will be absolutely no expense. As one who knows, I think it is a very, very
, shaky scheme as far as economics are concerned, but we might as
well give it a try.
WE NOTICE THAT THE POLICE have raided another home
in St. John's, this time people were caught reading Mickey Spillane! This
is a foul and bawdy pastime, and it must stop, what will our youth
come to? It is disgraceful how people can sit and read these foul books
as long as they have something like their own TUESDAY TRUMPET
to please'the highest literary taste.
WE FOUND THAT THE PUBLIC LIKES the new program on
station PUTU every hour Monday through Friday. LIFE CAN BE
HORRIBLE is only on radio station PUTU of course. It is a real life
drama, with lifelike performances, and will put some life in your lifeless
afternoons. On PUTU of course. Well, I have been my usual well-
informed and unbiased self for another while.
$a>ce*%tt!?*8@ THAT'S 3 FOR THIS WEEK: (I can't count
up to thirty) !